Deep Sea Embers

Duncan listened silently to the voices in his heart, including the calm and reliable reports of Vanna and Maurice, Lucretia's helpless complaints, and sometimes Shirley's bleating and Nina's tireless warnings. ——These voices that spanned far away time and space were like anchor chains with warmth. After the two "incarnations" he left in the city-state gradually expired, they still firmly anchored him on the side of reason and humanity. .

Then, he temporarily ended the communication with Fanna and others, and slowly walked across the entire deck, through the stairs and ramps at the stern, and arrived at the towering stern bridge.

The doll was still standing quietly on the bridge, holding the dark cabin wheel tightly with both hands, and its unfocused eyes were looking straight ahead.

Countless invisible threads extended from her body, connecting the Homeless Ship under her feet and the illusory New Hope projection high in the sky.

A bit of thin mist suddenly spread from the decks in all directions, flowing and gathering.

Duncan noticed these strange fogs and frowned subconsciously. Then, he realized that the gray background in the distance seemed to have gradually "cracked" - large swaths of fog emerged at the end of the "channel" with uniform texture. , and there is a feeling of emptiness deep in the mist.

Almost at that moment, he heard the intermittent and vague voice: "The jump is over—"

There was a slight shaking from the Homeless Ship, but there was no obvious vibration like when it suddenly entered a certain "medium" when it arrived at the border node. The passage was broken silently, and the endless and thin mist almost blinked. It filled the surroundings, and the next second,

Alice, who was at the helm, blinked, and the doll's consciousness suddenly returned to her body.

"Captain!" Miss Doll looked at Duncan, and a happy and credit-worthy smile instantly broke out on her face, "We're here!"

Duncan nodded, but just as he was about to speak, he suddenly confirmed - he noticed that the edges of the Homeless Ship were quickly becoming "blurred"!

No, not just the edges, the entire ship is quickly becoming "blurred"! Under the fog, everything in his field of vision seemed to suddenly lose its clear "boundaries". Details on the deck were lost, and the mast gradually dimmed in the fog. Even Alice in front of him seemed to be integrated with the fog. General is quickly transformed into some illusory form.

And the green flames covering the body of the Lost Home also dissipated in the process. Alice seemed to have noticed something. She stood there in shock, and then slowly lowered her head, watching herself quickly lose details and become "blurred" hands: "Eh?"

But the next second, Zhou Ming-Duncan suddenly realized that the green flames that enveloped the body of the Lost Home were suddenly infiltrated with a hazy starlight. Duncan's eyes seemed to be shining with billions of stars, and there were already The Homeless Ship, which was on the verge of information collapse, was quickly rebuilt and regained its value in his vision. Under the burning flames filled with starlight, the deck and mast returned to their original state almost in the blink of an eye, and Alice's figure also followed. Steady before his eyes.

The doll almost didn't realize what happened. She saw the flames on the ship suddenly "changed color", and then the same flames surrounded her. After being stunned for a few seconds, she realized it in hindsight. He raised his hand and looked at it, and exclaimed: "Wow!" Duncan still had some lingering fear in his heart. He took a gentle breath and finally had such an understanding of the "edge of ashes" discovered by Le Nora for the first time. A little sense of reality. This is the real boundary of order, the border of nothingness, the "primordial sea" where information units have not been assigned values. The information here has not yet been defined, and comes from all "creations" within the scope of the sanctuary, even from subspace. The lost home number returning home is not a "data structure" that can exist stably here - because there is no data structure here at all!

The only ones who can maintain relative "security and stability" in this place are those who have experienced the Great Destruction and have acquired "self-stability" at the information level.

For example, "Inverse Singularity", such as the wreckage of the New Hope. Duncan took a deep breath, calmed down his mood, reached out and pressed Alice's hair, and then looked around and talked about the wreckage of the New Hope one by one, Lei? Where is Nora?

He and his ship had arrived at the location of the escape cabin's locating signal, but he looked around on the towering stern deck and did not see any entity in this chaotic and nihilistic "fog."

"Can you feel the signal from the escape hatch?" Duncan asked Alice with a slight frown, "We should have arrived at the location, right?

"Yes, theoretically it should be here." The puppet finally came to his senses from the beautiful stars around him, and quickly sensed the direction of the escape cabin, and then scratched his head in confusion, "The signal is here. It's near here. I sensed it just now. Why can't I see it?

The corner of Duncan's mouth suddenly trembled: "Did he knock her away again?

After hearing this, Alice keenly grasped the key point: "Wen?"

Duncan: "Don't worry about this. Let's find Leigh Nora first."

As he spoke, he slowly released his senses, and while carefully controlling the part of his power that belonged to the "Inverse Singularity", he tried to find the abnormal aura around the Lost Home.

At this time, he was thinking about two points: first, the unfortunate Frost Queen must not be really blown away by the Homeless Ship; secondly, the unfortunate Frost Queen must not be crushed by this big ship.

He came here to keep an appointment with the queen, not to let the queen "luck her luck". Not to mention it was embarrassing when we met later, it was not even easy to explain.

At this time, Alice also reacted. Miss Doll thought hard in her head for a long time, and finally clapped her hands: "Yes, the Homeless Number 'flew' directly according to the positioning signal of the escape cabin. Then when it landed, didn't it just land directly on the ground?" On the escape pod

Duncan let out a long sigh - what's the use of reacting at this time.

If he had known better, he shouldn't have let Alice jump directly by pressing the escape cabin's positioning beacon. At least he would have set a distance of X from the jump position beacon.

The safe distance of "

And just when he was sighing in his heart, Duncan suddenly felt something.

He "scanned" an "entity" that did not belong to the Lost Home.

But the location of that entity is on the Lost Home.

Duncan raised his head in confusion and looked at a certain direction in his perception. After some confirmation, the expression on his face gradually became subtle.

Alice also noticed: "Ah, Captain, have you found it?"

‘Go over first and take a look at the situation. "Duncan muttered this casually, and then took Alice away from the bridge. They walked through the platform and connecting stairs, followed the guidance in the induction, and finally arrived at the captain's cabin door at the stern of the ship.

Alice raised her head and looked at the familiar place in front of her, holding her head with both hands: "This is the captain's cabin, I didn't see anything else."

Duncan was still staring at the captain's cabin door (the Door of the Homeless) in front of him. He sensed the changes that had taken place here, and even gradually understood the changes that had taken place here.

After frowning and thinking hard for a long time, he finally took a step forward and placed his hand on the side of the door shaft of the Homeless Gate.

The distorted and dislocated space-time structure emerged in his mind and turned into a comprehensible reflection of reality. He found this time-space dislocated node and stretched out his hand to push it gently.

The door opened - one by one it was pushed away from the door axis.

Alice stared at this scene dumbfounded, and it took a long time before she said: "Can we still drive from here?!"

Duncan: "Don't make any noise, I'm thinking."

There is a hazy halo behind the door, as if there is an "indoor space" that does not belong to the Lost Home, which is being shrouded in the depths of a layer of constantly shaking optical phenomena.

Different from the process of "normally" opening the door of the homeless person and being transported directly to the "bachelor apartment", this time what appeared in front of Duncan seemed to be a real "entrance", one that could even allow other people besides him. The entry point for entities to enter.

He first stretched out his hand into the halo to try, and then turned to look at Alice: "Are you coming?"

Alice nodded without hesitation: "Yes!"

Duncan stretched out his hand to Miss Doll: "Follow me and grab my arms one by one. Don't let go until you're sure it's safe."

Alice immediately grabbed Duncan's arm obediently and followed the captain towards the hazy halo.

They seemed to have passed through a cold veil. After a very brief period of dizziness and sensory dislocation, the scene in front of them quickly stabilized.

A gorgeous and wide room appeared in front of Duncan and Alice, real and down to earth.

Leigh Nora was sitting on the big bed in the center of the room with a dull expression, staring blankly at Duncan and Alice who suddenly walked in - the Frost Queen seemed to have just suffered a big shock. , seemed stunned at this time, until Duncan walked towards her, she suddenly raised her hands and gestured in the air as if she had reacted.

"He ran over right away!"

Leigh Nora's expression gradually became a little crazy, "Such a big ship!" He ran over directly head on! Half of the room was suddenly smashed into pieces by the messy stuff coming towards you. It took a long time to recover, and then you pushed open the wall and walked in! Such a big hole! Can't you just walk through the door? "

Push away the wall?

Duncan was stunned for a moment and looked back in the direction he came from.

He saw Lenora's door, which was well built into the wall and was still closed, but there was a big hole in the wall next to the door - that's where he and Alice came in.

Time and space dislocation jpg.

Alice quietly poked Duncan on the arm: "Captain, why don't you speak?'

"Don't make any noise, I'm thinking again."